How to Make a Good Decision: A Five Step Guide to Making Everday Decisions

By Michael Blackstock

Have you ever wanted a simple and inexpensive tool to help you make everyday decisions? Well now it is here! This book provides you a unique and simple approach to decision making and improving your leadership. For the price of a latte, you get helpful tips and tools to guide you through a simple decision making process.


Are you in a rush to make a bad decision? Of course not. This book will help you decide if the deadline you are working with is real, and how to use analytical and intuitive approaches to decision making.

Make a good decision, and stick with it!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wyget Books
• Release date: Feb 9, 2015
• ISBN: 9780973676549

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How to Make a Good Decision: A Five Step Guide to Making Everday Decisions

How to Make a Good Decision: A Five Step Guide to Making Everyday Decisions

Copyright © 2015 by Michael D. Blackstock

All rights reserved.

Categories: Non-fiction, self-help and personal growth. Featuring a decision making process to make good decisions in everyday life.

ISBN: 978-0-9736765-4-9

Wyget Books

173 Odin Court, Kamloops

British Columbia

Canada

V2E 1E4

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Website: http://www.howtomakeagooddecision.com

Cover design and photo by Michael D. Blackstock

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Blackstock, Michael D., 1961-, author

How to make a good decision : a five step guide to making

everyday decisions / Michael D. Blackstock.

Electronic monograph in EPUB format.

ISBN 978-0-9736765-4-9 (epub)

1. Decision making.  I. Title.

BF448.B53 2015                     153.8'3                  C2015-901251-1

Acknowledgement

The author would like to acknowledge Philip Halkett for his wise teachings about how to make good decisions, thank you Philip.

About Author

The author is a professional forester, chartered mediator, professional negotiator, writer and artist.  Michael has over 30 years of experience in the public service as a policy advisor, negotiator, and forester.  Michael has a Master of Arts degree in First Nations studies, and is a member of the House of Geel, Gitxsan First Nation.

Preface

As parents, we were shocked, when we came to realize that we had not taught our sons a process to make good decisions. Sure we had helped them navigate individual decisions and provided guidance, but we had not taught them a step-by-step process to make good decisions.

Our eighteen-year old son was struggling to decide which Jeep Wrangler to buy.  He was spending days and days researching the internet. He wanted a Jeep that was reliable, fun and affordable.  He asked, how do I make a good decision, will you help me? He was fearsome of making the wrong vehicle choice. Memories of a bad repair experience with a junker pickup truck haunted him -- it broke down a lot.

This book is written for an individual or a family, as a tool to use in everyday situations, to make good decisions.  There are some very detailed books available which guide decision makers through structured decision making processes, but they are expensive, too detailed and technical for everyday decision making.

This is a guide, not a textbook. A simple process and helpful tips will guide you through the infinite number of decision making scenarios you will be faced with in life. You decide how to use and adapt this simple process. What makes this five step decision making process different?  You can customize the process to your style and to a particular decision making scenario.

This guide does not guarantee that you will make good decisions all the time. No decision making process is perfect, and the author has not always made good decisions, but you can appreciate there is a need, when you are stewing over a tough decision, for a simple guide.

This book is for our sons, youth and everyone who needs guidance through life’s decisions.

Mentors are encouraged to use this book with young leaders, to help them gain confidence in their decision making ability.

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